![]() John Sherman Cooper Captain, United States Army United States Senator - US Ambassador |
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Courtesy
of the United States Senate:
Senator
from Kentucky; born in Somerset, Pulaski County, Ky., August 23, 1901;
attended the public schools at Somerset and Centre College, Danville, Ky.;
was graduated from Yale College 1923; attended Harvard Law School
1923-1925; was admitted to the bar in 1928 and commenced practice in Somerset,
Ky.; member, Kentucky house of representatives 1928-1930; judge of Pulaski
County, Ky., 1930-1938; member of the board of trustees of the University
of Kentucky 1935-1946; served during the Second World War in the United
States Army 1942-1946, attaining the rank of captain; elected circuit judge
of the twenty-eighth judicial district of Kentucky in 1945 and served until
his resignation in November 1946; elected as a Republican to the United
States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Albert B.
Chandler and served from November 6, 1946, to January 3, 1949; unsuccessful
candidate for reelection in 1948; resumed the practice of law; delegate
to the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1949 and alternate delegate
in 1950 and 1951; served as adviser to the Secretary of State at the London
and Brussels meetings of the Council of Ministers of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization in 1950; elected as a Republican to the United States
Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Virgil M. Chapman and
served from November 5, 1952, to January 3, 1955; unsuccessful candidate
for reelection in 1954; Ambassador to India and Nepal 1955-1956; delegate,
United Nations General Assembly 1968; elected as a Republican to the United
States Senate in 1956 to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Alben
W. Barkley; reelected in 1960, and again in 1966 and served from November
7, 1956, to January 3, 1973; was not a candidate for reelection in 1972;
Ambassador to the German Democratic Republic 1974-1976; resumed the
practice of law in Washington, D.C., and was a resident of Somerset, Ky.,
and Washington, D.C., until his death in Washington, D.C., February 21,
1991; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Fort Myer, Virginia.
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